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blah, a week-long business trip with no way to track calories but my own guesses. 8/01: 216.7 8/05: 217.3 8/12: 215.4 8/19: 218.9 8/26: 8/31:

8/01: 216.7 8/05: 217.3 8/12: 215.4 8/19: 8/26: 8/31: Losing weight finally! I started at 255.5lbs, so this takes me over 40lbs since last year :)

I didn't do c25k tonight, but I did get a mile walk and mile elliptical as a warm up to an hour long Zumba class. I need to keep it a bit slower than you two, but can't wait to be running at 5! It's hard on my knees and shins to go above about 4.5, although on high energy days I go 4.8 for the first bit of the workout.…

2 miles tonight, whoot whoot!

Hey all, thought I'd join the challenge! Coming in mid-month and trying to get to the gym 2-3x/week I'm going to set the goal of 40 miles. I'm usually an elliptical, treadmill or cycle kind of girl, so most of my miles will come from that :)

I have more than 50 to go, but I'm pushing it!

I hear ya about working out outside. I'm a small town girl who is a bit scared of running the trails/tracks around Seattle alone. My boyfriend is currently working on getting running shoes -- he should be joining me in a week or two :) I'm thankful for the extra time, since I'm going to really need it to be able to keep up…

C25K is something I've tried to do in the past, but every time about 2 days in I can' function. Maybe my idea of 'jogging/running' is a bit different than others. I'm starting from an activity level of 2-3x/week at the gym, but have a big problem with sticking to it. I'll bet I manage that maybe 2 weeks out of every 4. The…

Ha ha hold on there bud :) Not always needed to workout less. Just make sure you're eating your workouts. If you burn 500 calories, eat some of it back. For example -- the day the net calories in the OP were 300, 700-900 of that could have been eaten back. Workouts don't need to be lower, but intakes shouldn't be so low…

Any suggestions on tricep exercises? I did a ton of arm workouts this week (first week EVER lifting weights) but none of the machines did anything for my arms. I have 0 clue how to do weight lifting -- I need a website, phone app (android) or book that does weight lifting for beginners, sample workouts, muscle areas…

I've seen Bodybuggs going on ebay and craigslist for $30-$80. They're monitors you wear all day that record ALL caloric burn throughout the day with from what I've understood to be high accuracy. Only thing about them is that you pay a monthly subscription to Apex to be able to upload info. Most of the ads i've seen for…

Hll! I know I'm here extremely late in the challenge, as there's only 19 days to go, but I'd love to hop in. In the next 19 days I hope to lose 4 pounds. The reason this could be tricky is I'm about to head out for a week in Souther California for a business trip. (My first ever business trip, I'm super excited!!) The food…

I studied forums for a few days to get the answer to this. Here's what's going on (I think -- correct me if wrong) MFP gives you a calorie range based on your BMR, your Basal Metabolism Rate, the amount of calories you would burn if you laid in bed all day and did nothing. They ask that you eat semi-between your caloric…

**wrong forum :D sorry!

Yay for Streaks! I missed my gym time yesterday, but walked for about 15 min at work on a break. I figure it's not great, but better than nothing. Can't wait, tonight is my last night of my graveyard job, then it's goodbye moon, hello Sunshine after 2 years. I know people who work overnight are statistically more likely to…

My scale told me I gained 10 pounds in a 12 hour period, then dropped it the next day. Probably the same thing :)

Hey we love the guys who take our classes! There's a few that come in and make fools fo themselves on purpose, they get the girls going. It's great!! Kudos to you for being that male energy in your group!

I don't normally weigh in so often, it was kind of a curiosity. I used to weigh in weekly, but just thought I'd take a look that day and see what would happen :). I like having a group for weekly weigh-ins though! 8/01: 216.7 8/08: 217.3 8/15: 8/22: 8/29: 8/31:

AH I want my hands on a bodybugg sooo badly. Next thing on my 'wishlist' it looks like!

I'm just now joining the thread, always helpful to have a group to weigh in with to keep it regular. I find myself stepping on the scale 3-4x a day. Two days ago I was sitting pretty at 215.4. For some reason today I stepped on the scale and weighed 223. Back to weekly weigh-ins I go! 8/01: 216.7 8/08: 8/15: 8/22: 8/29:…

Anything standing/moving. I'd avoid sitting if you don't wear tampons, the extra padding can cause a bit of odd bruising (speaking from experience) unless you're standing for your ride. Yoga, dance, elliptical, walking, running, weight training. Working out during my tom always makes me feel better -- it takes away cramps…

I've lost 40 pounds as a night shifter. The best thing I can think is you want to eat the goal calories while you're awake, rather than allowing yourself to overindulge/undereat at odd times. I start my day whenever I wake up, end it when I go to bed. Even my morning workouts (real morning, not wake-up mornings) go on the…

Never feel bad about yourself!! The point of this is to build confidence and lose weight, not to get bogged down by others! The reason you're here is to make yourself healthier, so if anyone makes you feel ashamed/embarassed about yourself, remember that! Even if we start a little larger, the fact that we're here shows…

So excited to find a walking group! Are those who are walking across America still here? I've been tracking my distance at exercise.lbl.gov - it's a website specifically set up for people to track walking/running/cycling (I also include swimming and elliptical) as miles towards a trans-continental journey :happy: I'm 49…

Zumba is AMAZING IF you get the right teacher and crowd. Find a group with a loud teacher, a excited group and you'll build up the energy. The gym I went to tried a noise maximum in our class room...the workout went to zomg amazing to hardly being a workout, they lost half their attendees at the classes until they fixed…

Huzzah for streaks! I've gone to the gym 3 days in a row now, I'm trying to do at least 15-25 min of working out every day. It's so low because on 'rest' days I want to at least take a short walk :) Good luck on yours!

That does help a bunch. So as a 'net' someone with a 'goal' of 1500 calories per day would try to get that line to hit 1500? By the way does the "in 5 weeks you would be..." account for the extra calories? I went to eat the extra 300 this morning that I earned at the gym, but put in foods before I ate. It changed my weight…

Okay. I am really turned around and confused by all of this. http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c20/meresged/netcal81-87.png This is a picture of my 'Net Calories' report for the week. How do I read this? What am I looking at? I have a 'food goal' of 1540 calories a day, a BMR of 1677 calories a day.

I've been working on losing weight for a year now, but at maybe 50-75% of my ability to try. Best thing I can say is to set a goal, stick to it. If you say you're going to go to the gym 3x a week, DO IT. If you're going to track exactly what you eat, even if you're having a bad food day, DO IT. Always be honest, push…

Thanks for all the welcomes! I hope this time it sticks and I can do more than 50% of an effort. Luckily my boyfriend moved in with me this past month -- he's a CRAZY eater, but is very very supportive of my dieting. He'll get himself a giant bowl of ice cream and make sure I have a frozen banana or some yogurt so we both…